Paperless-ngx turns physical documents into a searchable archive. Drop a scan into the consume folder and it runs OCR, extracts the text and dates, and files it with tags and correspondents you can search from a web UI.
Everything runs from this one snap -- web server, task worker, scheduler, file watcher and a bundled Redis. SQLite by default, PostgreSQL optional. Built from paperless-ngx upstream at tag v3.0.5.
After install, browse to http://localhost:8000 and create your account:
$ sudo snap run vsingh-paperless.manage createsuperuser
That prompts for the password locally. Avoid setting admin-password through snap config -- it is stored in plain text and readable by anything that can run snap commands.
The bundled Redis listens on 127.0.0.1:6399, not Redis's usual 6379. Any other Redis-family snap on the host claims 6379 first, and Paperless would then quietly connect to that snap's database instead of its own. Change it with: sudo snap set vsingh-paperless redis-port=N
Documents, database and config all live in $SNAP_COMMON, so they survive refreshes and reverts. Back up /var/snap/vsingh-paperless/common and you have backed up everything.
This is an unofficial package. Paperless-ngx is built by the paperless-ngx team and its contributors; this snap only packages their work.
Report packaging problems to [https://github.com/Cruzh3r2107/snap-paperless-ngx/issues](https://github.com/Cruzh3r2107/snap-paperless-ngx/issues), not to upstream.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.
The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below.
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 9 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 8 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 7 with the following command:
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Adding the optional and extras repositories is also recommended:
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
Snap can now be installed as follows:
sudo yum install snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install vsingh-paperless, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install vsingh-paperless --candidate
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